Category: Garden Plans
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Fruits I am growing in my garden
List your top 5 favorite fruits. I am new to gardening so had my allotment last year but only managed to maintain and grow two large beds. Fruit was furthest from my mind as I wanted to focus on my veggies. Tomatoes The fruit that grows anywhere. I love tomatoes, I grew four plants last…
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A trip to the Garden centre
My favorite way to spend the day! A heavenly day at the garden centre. We headed to battlesbridge first to wonder around and take a peak at the antiques. It’s fairly dog friendly there so we went for a nice walk and then had a couple of pints. It’s a quintessential English village with duck…
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Apricotta Cosmos
Cosmos are one of my favourite flowers! Yesterday I sowed some of my prized seeds. When I was on Facebook a member was recommending some cosmos tips. It turns out he grows them professionally and shows at Hampton Court and Chelsea, he wasn’t even trying to sell his seeds, but I enquired and bought the…
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Gardening: my everyday happiness
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? My husbands cancer chained me to the house, especially in the first few months. If I needed to leave I would ask his mum to come over. Complications with his surgery meant he couldn’t walk far so he just needed someone with him. My garden and…
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Last night I planted my asparagus crowns
What’s the most fun way to exercise? Gardening is great exercise. There is no doubt about it. From lifting huge bags of compost, digging trenches for my crowns. building a temporary fence. It’s constant movement in the great outdoors. Or in my case, East London. Gardening is work. It hurts your back, your knees your…
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A weekend in the garden
Seeds to sow April is crazy sowing month. It’s getting warmer and there are no signs of frost. My green house is still broken so it’s warm but not the perfect temperature for growing so I still have to bring things inside. Something took a big bite out of my artichoke so I brought it…
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If only gardening was an Olympic sport?
What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most? We don’t watch a lot of sport in this house. Maybe the World Cup in football and rugby. Maybe some of the Winter Olympics but we don’t go out of our way. We just don’t care for sports. But gardening, I love seeing gardens develop. I…
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Spring time in the garden
It’s been a wonderful day, dry and sunny. We woke up, had coffee and bacon buttys then walked to the butcher to order a ham for Good Friday . Then stopped off on our local coffee shop for a snack. On our walk we found that a neighbour was having a tree chopped down. The…
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It’s magnolia season and I am here for it
I live these early spring flowers and I happen to live in an area that is full to the brim of them. They are magnificent. White Pink Burgandy I have no interest in eating them. I just love watching them flower and then leaving them to nature. We have this small tree which will be…
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Dreaming of these window boxes
I tried to find the owner of the picture but it leads back to Instagram and someone sharing a photo, then sharing a photo. It’s trickier not being on instagram so if this beautiful photo is your creation please let me know. I would love to know what flowers these are as I really would…
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